Worth separating two things that the opening post runs together.
Nothing here is medical advice, and pen technique is the single easiest thing to have demonstrated in person rather than learned from a description.
Nothing above should be read as advice about what anyone else should do.
Right — I had this wrong and I am glad to have read it before it mattered.
Injection duration: most pens deliver the dose over several seconds. Holding the button down for the full duration ensures complete delivery. Releasing early can result in underdosing.
I am aware this is the third time this month I have made this point.
Post #29 and I disagree about the size of the effect, not about the direction.
Where a device exists in more than one presentation, the instructions differ in small ways between them. Reading the leaflet that came with the one in your hand is the point.
The conclusion is tentative; the arithmetic underneath it is not.
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